Overview

Position Overview
The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated individual to perform the duties of Methods and Procedures Advisor 2. Under direction, duties include but are not limited to implementing Immunization Information System (IIS) onboarding of providers and other organizations; testing and monitoring data submitted to the IIS via Health Level Seven (HL7); ensuring conformance to national data exchange standards; monitoring connections with data exchange partners; implementing interjurisdictional data exchange via the Immunization (IZ) Gateway; collaborating on IIS upgrades; keeping abreast of changes to HL7 and other national standards for secure data exchange; collaborating with Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) to facilitate IIS compliance with standards; incorporating or onboarding data from available sources to improve demographic record completeness and accuracy; assessing, updating, and improving key IIS functions to ensure the highest quality of data; collaborating and cross-training with the data quality staff to assess incoming data; reviewing data quality reports and measurements; identifying the need for enhancements and changes to the IIS; and other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions

  • Develops and implements strategies informed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Immunization Information Systems (IIS) Data Quality Blueprint and guidance from American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) and Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) to assess, monitor and improve incoming data submitted by providers/other partners through all IIS reporting methods (e.g., HL7, IIS user interface, file transfer) and data at rest.
  • Regularly reviews internal Data Quality reports, CDC Data Quality reports, the CDC IIS Dashboard, and reports from the AIRA Measurement and Improvement Aggregate Analysis Reporting Tool (AART), to identify and assist in prioritizing IIS enhancements and changes to internal reports and processes to align with CDC IIS Functional Standards and IIS community best practices.
  • Manually merges duplicate records that are determined to belong to the same patient and separate records that are found to be incorrectly merged.
  • Conduct testing to ensure that IIS forecasting algorithms are up-to-date and conform to the CDC Clinical Decision Support for Immunization (CDSi) guidance for correctly assessing immunization histories, returning accurate forecasts of immunizations due, and producing accurate reminder/recall notifications and coverage assessments.
  • Works with IIS vendor/IT department to facilitate high data quality by regularly assessing, updating and improving key IIS functions.
  • Collaborates with other staff, IIS vendor/IT department, other IIS, and national partners to implement interjurisdictional data exchange via the IZ Gateway
  • Works with the interoperability and onboarding staff to implement IIS onboarding of providers and other organizations.
  • Performs Help Desk duties including answering phones and emails, fulfilling patient and partner requests, supporting IIS users, facilitating password resets, etc., and uses a help desk issue tracker.
  • Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonable within the scope of those duties enumerated above.
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About Illinois Department Public Health

In Illinois, if you have eaten at a restaurant ... required hospital or nursing home care ... vacationed at a campground or swam at a public beach or pool ... drank a glass of milk ... got married or divorced ... had a baby, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has touched your life in some important way.

Assuring the quality of our food, setting the standards for hospital and nursing home care, checking the safety of recreation areas, overseeing the inspection of milk producing farms and processing plants, maintaining the state's vital records and screening newborns for genetic diseases are just some of the duties of IDPH.

In fact, IDPH has 200 different programs that benefit each state resident and visitor, although its daily activities of maintaining the public's health are rarely noticed unless a breakdown in the system occurs. With the assistance of local public health agencies, these essential programs and services make up Illinois' public health system, a system that forms a frontline defense against disease through preventive measures and education. Public health has provided the foundation for remarkable gains in saving lives and reducing suffering. Today, life expectancy is 80 years for women and 74 years for men compared with fewer than 50 years at the at the beginning of the 20th century.

In the past, IDPH directed state efforts to control smallpox, cholera and typhoid, virtually eliminated polio, reduced dental decay through fluoridation of community water supplies, and corrected sanitary conditions that threatened water and food supplies.

Today, IDPH has programs to deal with persistent problems that require continued vigilance – infectious diseases, such as AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and meningococcal disease; foodborne and communicable diseases, such as E. coli 0157: H7, monkeypox, salmonella and West Nile virus; vaccine preventable diseases; lead poisoning; lack of health care in rural areas; health disparities among racial groups, breast, cervical and prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease; and other health threats -- sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco use, violence, and other conditions associated with high-risk behaviors. In addition, IDPH has been charged with handling the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of bioterrorism.

IDPH, which is one of the state's oldest agencies, was first organized in 1877 with a staff of three and a two-year budget of $5,000. IDPH, now has an annual budget of $2.9 billion in state and federal funds, headquarters in Springfield and Chicago, seven regional offices located around the state, three laboratories, and 1,200 employees.

IDPH is organized into 12 offices, each of which addresses a distinct area of public health. Each office operates and supports numerous ongoing programs and is prepared to respond to extraordinary situations as they arise.